Memberships
While we have spent much of our time focusing on businesses wishing to expand from the US into Europe and the UK, we have only recently begun to work the other side. We have many British friends, as an example, who have come to the US to make a better life for themselves and their families.
Most of these people have purchased businesses and are employing people. Many are successful, but an alarming number have arrived to learn that somewhere along the way they were lead astray by bad advice from sources they had trusted but who had turned out to be unworthy of their trust. This often started in the UK with people claiming to know who to go to and how to get started but were instead just trying to make a fast profit from unwary clients.
We have seen cases of bad visa advice, business brokers who have misrepresented the businesses they were selling and even accountants who did not provide the total picture. In some cases, the new owners arrived to learn that the numbers of clients in the business was much lower than they had been told and that the business could barely sustain itself, if even at all!
We are now beginning to work with other professionals in the Central Florida area to identify the best of the best for immigration advice, business advice and even advice on the personal aspects of life in the US. Having gone the other way ourselves, landing in the UK and not even knowing how to write a check (cheque!), we understand how daunting this may seem for the new immigrant.